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Category: Freight

Cumbria passengers to get multi-million-pound track upgrades

28th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Freight, News
Bootle track in Cumbria

Passengers in Cumbria are being advised to plan their journeys next month when Network Rail upgrades track near Bootle station.

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Llangennech diesel train catches fire after derailing

27th August 2020 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Freight, News, World

A freight train carrying diesel has derailed and burst into flames in Llangennech, South Wales.

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Holocaust Memorial Day: 75 years since liberation of Auschwitz camp

27th January 2020 Sam Hewitt Freight, News, Steam, World

The darkest episode in the history of world railways undoubtedly centres around the role they were forced to play in the transport of civilians to Nazi death camps during the Second World War.

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Canadian National celebrates centenary

7th January 2020 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Freight, News, World

CANADA’s largest rail operator – Canadian National (CN) – celebrated its centenary in 2019 and gave some of its locos a special ‘CN100’ livery. Here, ‘CN100’ livery GE ET44AC No. 3217 leads another GE-built loco

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Construction traffic boom keeps UK railfreight stable

4th December 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Freight, Network, News

A FIVE per cent increase in construction traffic took the sector to its highest quarterly volume in the first three months of 2019/20, according to new figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). 

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Five things you may not know about British Rail freight

29th November 2019 Shannon Butcher Features, Freight

Here’s a few things you may not have known about British Rail freight…

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Leighton Buzzard Railway: 100 not out

14th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Features, Freight, Network

Cliff Thomas reports on a rare heritage anniversary – a 2ft-gauge railway that has operated continuously for a century. THE Leighton Buzzard Railway (LBR) will celebrate the line’s 100th anniversary of continuous operation on November

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Classic stations: Newcastle Central

11th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Features, Freight, Network

Newcastle Central is a listed building, the city’s major transport hub, and acts as both a terminus and a through station. Graeme Pickering recalls the station’s impressive past and assesses plans recently outlined for the

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Bath conundrum

9th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Freight, Letters, Network, Steam

I enjoyed Mike Arlett’s articles on Bath Green Park in the August and September’s issues.  In particular, I was pleased to see the Ivo Peters’ photograph in the September article showing the departure of No.

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GB Railfreight celebrates 15 years of Locomotion

7th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Freight, Network, News

GB Railfreight Class 66 No. 66788 was named Locomotion on September 21 as part of the celebrations to mark a decade and a half since the National Railway Museum opened its outstation in Shildon, County

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